Nov 12, 2011 | The Oregonian
Wind blows money into pockets of Sherman County residents
Every household in windswept Sherman County will soon get a Christmas gift in the mail: a $590 check.
Search On For Man Who Fell In Lower Deschutes
Jefferson County authorities, aided by several agencies, were undertaking a major search on and along the Lower Deschutes River Monday for a man who apparently fell into the river and was swept downstream near the Trout Creek Campground Sunday night.
Wind farms a windfall for Oregon's Sherman County
Part of the Klondike Wind Power Project sits on the property of John and Gordon Hilderbrand in Sherman County, Ore., home to many wind turbines.
In sparse Sherman County, wind is blowing in the dough
It pays to live in Sherman County: $590 a year. In this sparsely populated landscape south of the Columbia River Gorge, annual checks for that amount are local residents' share of a windfall brought by the growing wind energy industry.